Arthur BesseMA to LinuxEnglish · edit-22 months agotension on kernel mailing lists continues to grow as a Linux Foundation board member finally replies with a "summary of the legal advice the kernel is operating under" re: enforcing US sanctionslore.kernel.orgexternal-linkmessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1247arrow-down114cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@hexbear.nettechnology@lemmygrad.ml
arrow-up1233arrow-down1external-linktension on kernel mailing lists continues to grow as a Linux Foundation board member finally replies with a "summary of the legal advice the kernel is operating under" re: enforcing US sanctionslore.kernel.orgArthur BesseMA to LinuxEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square106fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@hexbear.nettechnology@lemmygrad.ml
minus-squareSeattleRain@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·2 months agoMeh, if they really leave this will prompt the US government or corps to finally start paying these developers. This flare up is a blessing in disguise.
minus-squaresocsa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down8·2 months agoWait until you find out how much of Linux the NSA has built.
minus-squareSeattleRain@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down3·2 months agoNext to none. You’re just spreading FUD.
minus-squareSeattleRain@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThey haven’t been involved with that for years and it’s open source so it’s as likely to have a backdoor as any other part of the code.
Meh, if they really leave this will prompt the US government or corps to finally start paying these developers. This flare up is a blessing in disguise.
Wait until you find out how much of Linux the NSA has built.
Next to none. You’re just spreading FUD.
selinux is one example.
They haven’t been involved with that for years and it’s open source so it’s as likely to have a backdoor as any other part of the code.
The NSA also created tor